Improvement in fruit-jars



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUKE TOZER, OF MAROA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-JARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 211,440, dated January14, 1879 application filed May 2, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUKE TOZER, of Marca, in the county of Macon andState of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fruit-Jars, of which the following' is a specication:

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specication,Figure 1 is a fruitjar with my invention embodied, and shown in sideelevation. Fig. 2 is the same in front elevation.

A is a yoke, extending across the top of jar-cover B, and bent downwardand again inward at right angles to form a pivot for the Y lever D. Toprevent displacement of A, cover B is provided with depressions b b atopposite points in its circumference.

D is a lever, curved to conform to the neck of the jar, and pivots onyoke A at a a, forming a double lever, bent as shown. The twoextremities ofthe lever D, after being wound around the inwardly-bentends of the yoke A, are extended upward, as seen at d d, and these endsenter depressions o o in the neck of the Jar.

O is a rubber Washer, introduced between the jar and cover to form anair-tight joint. E is the jar, and e e ridges on cover and jar to showthe proper position of each prepara tory to adjusting the holding deviceA D.

In operating my device, I bring ridges e e 011 a line; lay yoke A indepressions b b; place ends d d of lever D in depressions o o, and pressdown on the lever, forcing/it into the position shown, which, beingslightly past the center of attachment, locks the device and holds thecover securely.

I claim as new and of my invention- Ridges e e, in combination withdepressions b b and o o, used for the purpose oi' facilitating theadjustment of device D A, as and for the purpose set forth.

LUKE TOZER.

Attest:

JOHN N. BILLS, Lnvi I). GRAHAM.

